Alesiter Crowley

[MistOfTheSea86]

What are everyones views on Aleister Crowley???

[Semele]

Ask Mol...he will go on and on and on.... well I guess you get the picture. He is quite the Crowley fan!

[Betty Ann Bongo]

i have a girlfriend who writes love poems to crowley. she thinks he's her boyfriend. i think they're both nuts :p

crowley a bizarr-o character. i think he was incredibly full of himself. but he was very well studied--but something of a dark figure.

[loopy]

The only experience I have with Crowley is through reading his "Diary of a Drug Fiend." I thought it was a very enlightening book, a good read, and I liked the philosophy. I also read somewhere that he had many wives, all of whom went crazy. Is that true?

[Betty Ann Bongo]

hehehehe i dont know if thats true but if i were his wife he'd have driven me crazy. he was quite the skirt chaser.

[Semele]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by loopy
[B]The only experience I have with Crowley is through reading his "Diary of a Drug Fiend." I thought it was a very enlightening book, a good read, and I liked the philosophy.


Read it backwards.

[loopy]

How do you mean? :confused:

[Semele]

Originally posted by loopy
How do you mean? :confused:

Mol says it is supposed to have another meaning when read backwards!! :confused:

Maybe it says paul is dead!!

I personally don't know as i can't force myself to read any of his work. Too out there for me!!

[loopy]

Hee, I was gonna ask if it read Paul is Dead. :) How do you read a book backwards though? Like, are you supposed to read "that" as "taht"? Or go page by page? Or chapter by chapter?
Eh, my head hurts. :)

[mol]

Originally posted by loopy
The only experience I have with Crowley is through reading his "Diary of a Drug Fiend." I thought it was a very enlightening book, a good read, and I liked the philosophy. I also read somewhere that he had many wives, all of whom went crazy. Is that true?

Try reading that book backwards sometime...or, at least, take the story backwards.

[mol]

I didnt get through the whole thread...before I started mouthing off. Anyway, dont take "read it backwards" to literal. Take the story line backwards and pay attention to the Names and Numbers used.

[loopy]

Gotcha. :)

[mol]

The key to understanding most of Crowleys work is to take nothing at face value. Nothing is literal and everything is false. Of course, sometimes this is switched drastically in his writings and you have to be able to feel when he switches gears (so to speak) on you.

Anyway, this is slightly off topic in this forum...unless perhaps we were to start talking about the Thoth deck of course! ;)

[Semele]

Anyway, this is slightly off topic in this forum...unless perhaps we were to start talking about the Thoth deck of course! ;) [/B][/QUOTE]

Is there another place more suited to this discussion?? It did get your ugly mug in the tarot forum though!!!

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Maybe in the Magick and Ritual forum?....or maybe the History forum? ;)

I don't own a Thoth deck. Anyone else? (trying to keep to forum topic) :D

[MistOfTheSea86]

ME!!!! I use the THOTH eck adn I love it, it works very well. And I also started a thread on thoth I think in the TArot setion. Just look for it.

[Theres]

Dagda, you don't own the most important tarot deck ever created?!

anyway, as far as the 'Diary of a Drug Fiend' goes, i wouldn't take anything in that too seriously. it is a 'semi-autobiographical' piece of fiction he wrote it in a couple of weeks when he was desparately in need of the cash advance. he got 50 pounds, with another advance of 100 pounds for his next book, which was his real autobiography. he used this money to pay back rent on his abbey at Cefalu' (Sicily).
it's hard to know exactly which of his writings he truly believed himself. he wrote prolifically, and had a habit of writing ANYTHING that would garner him the most attention. during WW1 he went to America, where he wrote pro-Irish revolutionary literature and anti-British German propaganda, all the while claiming to be an English agent!
a very interesting fellow, just ask him!